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Q: Google search link highjack. ( Answered,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Google search link highjack.
Category: Business and Money > Advertising and Marketing
Asked by: packa-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 06 Jan 2003 05:37 PST
Expires: 05 Feb 2003 05:37 PST
Question ID: 138199
My first link on my www.venozone.com Google search result is RESALE
RIGHTS TO PRODUCTS YOU CAN SELL. A click on this link should display
my products page as was the case at the start. This link now shows
Eagle Enterprise's invasion newsletter/info@becomingreseller.net 
reading  - ARE YOU FED UP OF LOSING...etc
How can this be removed? Please advise. Philip Harrison.

Request for Question Clarification by webadept-ga on 06 Jan 2003 11:21 PST
I get a "Can Not find server" Error when I go to you sight and I don't
find anything when searching for your site name. Could you verify the
spelling for us?

thanks, 

webadept-ga

Request for Question Clarification by webadept-ga on 06 Jan 2003 14:41 PST
Customer's site is http://www.vendozone.com 

webadept-ga

Request for Question Clarification by tar_heel_v-ga on 06 Jan 2003 15:03 PST
Did you used to own the domain http://www.ebookmarketstall.com/
because the cached view of that domain is your current website at
vendozone.com

Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 06 Jan 2003 16:00 PST
packa,

Click on this link, and scroll down to see the name, address, phone
number, and e-mail information. Is this you?
http://www.betterwhois.com/bwhois.cgi?domain=vendozone.com&x=51&y=20

aceresearcher
Answer  
Subject: Re: Google search link highjack.
Answered By: aceresearcher-ga on 06 Jan 2003 22:36 PST
 
Philip,

Here's what I have been able to piece together from the available
information:

If you enter www.vendozone.com into the Google Search box and click
"Google Search", the following screen appears:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Showing web page information for www.vendozone.com   

Resale Rights to Products You Can Sell
Products with Resale Rights. Acquiring the resale rights to quality
products
is the quickest way to add a self running revenue generation ... 

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

- Show Google's cache of www.vendozone.com 
- Find web pages that are similar to www.vendozone.com 
- Find web pages that link to www.vendozone.com 
- Find web pages that contain the term "www.vendozone.com"
-----------------------------------------------------------

If you click on the link to "Show Google's cache of
www.vendozone.com", you get the following page:
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:kxxpjLwPvm0C:www.ebookmarketstall.com/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

At the top of this page it says:
"This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.ebookmarketstall.com/."

Furthermore, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and position the
mouse arrow over the "HOME" link. You will see that the link goes to:
http://www.ebookmarketstall.com/index.html

A domain lookup of vendozone.com at
http://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs
shows that this domain was registered to you on 28-Jul-2002.

A domain lookup of ebookmarketstall.com at
http://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs
shows that this domain was registered to Eagle Enterprises on
01-May-2002.

From this, I have surmised that you used to own the rights to the
ebookmarketstall.com domain name, and that on May 1, either you gave
up your license for that site, it was given away or transferred
without your permission (this has happened quite a bit lately), or
your license expired and Eagle Enterprises immediately snatched it up.
Since then, you have moved your site to the vendozone.com domain.

If that is the case, what has happened is that the Google Search
Engine has gotten confused, and right now it thinks that these two
sites are one and the same.


First, the bad news:
It is not likely that any pleas made to the powers-that-Google will
get this search result removed from their index. They have a policy
that there will be NO tampering with the results at the behest of
outside agents, even when there are the best of reasons.

Now, the good news:
Eventually, the when the Google Dance (what webmasters call the crawl
that Google makes through the web every few weeks) comes around to
your site again, things should get straightened out.

And the even better news:
You can likely speed up the correction of this problem a little by
manually submitting your URL to Google and DMOZ (Directory Mozilla,
the Open Directory Project). While you're at it, I recommend you
submit your site to some of the other major Search Engines as well, as
it should not hurt -- and might even help -- your search rankings on
those Engines. Before you do this, however, I recommend that you
upload a fresh copy of your page, so that the "Last Modified Date" on
it is quite recent (Search Engines also look at this date).

Here is a list of some sites where you can submit your domain name to
Search Engines:
  Google:    
://www.google.com/addurl.html   
  DMOZ (Directory Mozilla/Open Directory Project):   
http://dmoz.org/add.html   
  HotBot:   
http://ldbreg.lycos.com/cgi-bin/mayaLogin?m_PR=29&m_CBURL=http://insite.lycos.com/searchservices/lite?step1.asp
  AllTheWeb:   
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php   
  AltaVista:   
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new   
  Zeal (LookSmart/MSN free submission w/free registration)   
http://www.zeal.com/users/register.jhtml   
 
In addition, if you are interested in learning more about how the
Google Search Engine works, I recommend that you check out
WebMasterWorld at
http://www.webmasterworld.com , where some of the best and brightest
minds on the Internet have weighed in with a lot of helpful
information for webmasters and site owners.


Search Strategy:

InterNIC WhoIs:
http://www.internic.net/whois.html

Better WhoIs:
http://www.betterwhois.com

TUCOWS Domain Registrar's WhoIs lookup
http://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs

www.vendozone.com 
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=www.vendozone.com+


Before Rating my Answer, if you have questions about this information,
please post a Request for Clarification, and I will be glad to see
what I can do for you.
 
I hope that this Answer provides exactly the information you were
seeking, and that you will soon see a speedy resolution to your search
results problem!
 
Regards, 
 
aceresearcher
Comments  
Subject: Re: Google search link highjack.
From: bio-ga on 06 Jan 2003 15:30 PST
 
Probably Google is doing a re-indexing on their index and/or cache. I
wouldn't worry...

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